November 9 - 11, 2018

Next Generation Java Testing with JUnit 5

Saturday - Nov 10 9:00 AM
- MEETING ROOM 8

Kenneth Kousen

President, Kousen IT, Inc.

JUnit 5 is a complete refactoring of the most well-known tool in all of testing, and the developers have done a remarkable job. The new JUnit 5 version is full of new features, updated semantics, and usability improvements. This talk will demonstrate all the new features, as well as some of the experimental ones in the pipeline.

JUnit has been remarkably stable over the years and is one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the Java world. The latest version, JUnit 5, takes JUnit to the next level. Full of new features like conditional test execution, parametric testing, labeling and filtering tests, and more, it brings all the modern thinking on testing into the JUnit world. It also takes advantage of the functional features added to Java since version 8 to create a powerful, new library for testing your code. This talk will show you how to adopt JUnit 5's new features while maintaining backward compatibility.

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the O'Reilly books “Modern Java Recipes” and “Gradle Recipes for Android” and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

In 2013, 2016, and 2017 he won a JavaOne Rockstar award. His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.